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Frank Ellermann wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070419-microsofts-sender-id-hits-new-milestone-for-stopping-spam.html (04-19)

| Sender ID is not the first such technology to be tried: open-source
| solutions such as Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Certified Server
| Validation (CSV) also perform the same functions. But Microsoft claims
| that Sender ID is a superior tool for fighting spam and phishing, and in
| an attempt to increase its usage in the market, the company opened up the
| technology last year using a perpetual, royalty-free license. Still,
| uptake of Sender ID by the open-source community, which tends to be
| distrustful of Microsoft and prefer its own solutions, has not been as
| great as Microsoft anticipated. Yet Microsoft boasts that a whole slew of
| firms that have gotten on board the Sender ID bandwagon, including Alt-N,
| Barracuda, Cloudmark, Exchange Hosted Filtering, Iconix Message Systems,
| Port25 Solutions, Secure Computing, Sendmail, Sonic Wall, Strongmail,
| Symantec, and Tumbleweed.

WTF? *sigh*

At least some truth is being told in the comments:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/174096756/m/630006254831?r=554006254831#554006254831
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/174096756/m/630006254831?r=937002554831#937002554831

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It's basically a copy/paste of a Microsoft press release. I don't intend to
give it links to raise it up in search results, but it's on the MS site.

Scott K

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